We call it a project because there are lots of things going on here. We are a family of four living semi-rurally in our owner-built off-grid straw bale home, attachment parenting, homeschooling, farming and homesteading with two other family members on 10 acres. Our goals are self-sufficiency and sustainability as we prepare for the future while living joyfully in the present.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Recent Happenings on the "Fram"

This photo was taken a bit earlier in the season, but the sunflowers have been lovely...we are now drying the seeds for harvesting.

Our pigs! Meet Krupke and Munsen.

Pretzels treeing her chicks. Pretzels came back to live at Ironwood when family friends had to move out of the area. She is settling in nicely...

The kids had friends over and were most helpful loading hay bales onto the trailer...

Our dog (Jack) helped too...

We were solar cooking fools in the heat of summer! The menu included flan, fritata, apple bread, and pictured here, banana bread.

A visitor...

Our new calf, Indie! This was taken July 5th, the morning after she was born--hence the name "Independence".

I decided to lop off the whole branch and put the bees into an empty hive.

Here it is after I cut the branch from the tree.

After I cut the branch I carefully lowered the whole thing into the
hive.

I left the hive there for the rest of the day so that any remaining bees
could find their way inside, then moved it over to our place that
evening. The next day I pulled out the rest of the branch and let them
make themselves at home.